Metacity is a Window Manager that is part of the GNOME Project.
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Remove shadows from Metacity windows
My goal is to remove the dropshadow from all metacity windows. I realize there is not a setting to do this and I may need to recompile metacity. If this is so than I'll need some help on where to ...
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Run metacity without gnome-shell (gnome 3)
Hi how can i use metacity with composite manager without gnome-shell. I'm trying to do so in my custom xsession
#!/bin/bash
if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"; then
eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax ...
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Is there any way to prevent focus being grabbed by another application?
I am getting annoyed by windows under X opening and taking focus away from the current window which has focus. This is particularly annoying when you are typing a password into a password dialog and ...
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How to remember window location metacity (Always on visible workspace)
I need to have some applications running on specific workspaces on gnome and have the option (Always on visible workspace) ticked and remembered each time I'm loggin out. Is this possible?
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send keystroke to process
I'd like to run some applications in fullscreen. Even though they don't have an explicit such option, it is possible with the metacity Alt-F11 command.
So, I thought I could create such an input like ...
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Terminate metacity
The last two lines of my .xinitrc looks like this
xterm -g 80x24+10+10 -bg black -fg green &
metacity
When I used twm, I could exit it from the menu (return to the tty where I run xinit), but ...
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How to make Compiz start automatically?
I'm using Linux Debian Squeeze and I already have compiz installed. I want metacity stop automatically boot, and instead want compiz to start automatically.
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Open PDF previewer width specific size and position and “always on top” from command line
I'm using latexmk -pdf -pvc to keep compiling my LaTeX files to PDFs while they are displayed in evince. I'm doing that a lot with different files and I keep needing to zoom the PDF content, resize ...
